Educators and/or parents please do not use this app. Coming from a unbiased standpoint as a student without the “all homework=bad” point of view, this app is just awful. The lessons take hours to complete. There’s a variety of different lessons that can be assigned, within these lessons there’s multiple “stats” you must fill up to complete the level, each stat accounts for a different part of the problem and it can take 10 or more problems to fill up one stat. However, if you make a mistake these stats will completely start over. In the current workspace I’m on, there’s 8 stats I must fill up but their can be more. There’s little to no explanation on what you’re supposed to do, so often times I just kind of memorize the patterns within each problem without actually understanding the math or reasoning behind it. While there is a “step by step” option, the explanations are often extremely confusing and worded weird. The actual app itself is extremely disengaging with dull colors, boring mechanics, and like I previously stated, over complicated, (but somehow also very surface level) explanations of the concepts your child is learning. After I’m done with the workspaces I find myself with no new knowledge or understandings of math, which is really disappointing because I love to learn. So while I could be doing something actually useful to me, I’m stuck doing repetitive lessons. I’m already not the best at math, but these lessons if anything just confuse me more. Another thing I noticed is a lot of the things they teach are completely irrelevant to what my teacher is talking about in class, which may not be the apps fault but I figure I should bring it up anyways. For reference, I am a seventh grader, a lot of the things in Carnegie seem a lot more advanced and difficult then we’re actually learning. There’s no reason these should be more difficult, I wouldn’t be assigned more difficult lessons because to be completely honest, I have a D in math, and am in a standard class, so there’s no way I could be moved on to more advanced subjects. If you made it this far I’m begging you, there are far more better programs to teach your children. If anything this program will just teach your students or children to resent math.
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